Today's News

The City Commission held a city budget workshop after adjourning Monday’s regular meeting.

City Manager Mary Ellzey presented a budget workshop agenda detailing potential wage increases from the current city employee salary plan.

The city has not upwardly adjusted starting pays since adopting the current plan in 2004. Police and Fire employees have seen upward adjustment independent of the 2004 plan, and are not included in the proposal as a result.

Bull riding seems a little bit like a fraternity of cowboys and bulls that was the original “animal house” long before the movie first appeared in 1978.

Colton Stevens, 23, of Old Town, and Cody Baisden, 28, of Kenansville, have known each other for 10 years.

Stevens is following behind his father and grandfather, who also rode the bucking animals. Baisden, who has been riding consistently since he was 18, said bull riding was just something he always wanted to do.

The Wild Hog Canoe Race continues to draw new participants to the charity event – a grueling 15-mile trek down the Waccasassa River, where canoers and kayakers paddle, drag, lift, wade and swim their way past snakes and alligators from six miles west of Bronson to the Waccasassa Bridge at U.S. Highway 19 near Gulf Hammock. The 40th Anniversary edition Saturday was no different.

The Chiefland Police Chief awarded one city police officer with the Medal of Valor on Monday, for his actions during an attempted traffic stop in the early morning hours of Feb. 26.

Chiefland Police Officer Kyle Schultz attempted to stop a silver SUV for a traffic infraction near southeast Fourth Avenue. The vehicle continued onto southwest Second Drive when a back-seat passenger fled the scene, according to a press release from the Chiefland Police Department.

The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Tri-County Chapter 63 is sponsoring a Poker Run and Raffle to raise money for our local veterans.

The event will be April 22 starting at Beef O' Brady's of Chiefland with a few stops before it ends at Willard's Restaurant & Lounge in Morriston. There is still ample time for businesses to become serious supporters by donating a product or a monetary donation.

A thunderstorm flooded Chiefland High School’s campus April 4, leaving water inches deep on all the sidewalks, parking lots and other walkways such as the field leading to the ag shop.

It is possible there was as much as 7 inches of rain that day and while it caused many issues for students and teachers throughout the day, Chiefland High School did everything possible to keep their students safe and dry.